Hey all,

I grabbed a (USB) DeskJet 950C and it showed up in good shape. The printer checks out good and printed a test page just fine. I see the device is quite alive when I run "usbdevlister". I have followed the guides on getting the printer configured. I do see a warning when I add the PPD file:

This printer description requires CUPS filter: hpcups.
Are you sure you have installed it?

I picked "No, Let's try without CUPS filter".

(I extracted this 950C.PPD from a HPLIP.tar.gz for Ubuntu.)

I have the USBPAR: set as the output path, printer set to default, and I also mounted USBPAR: in the user-startup. USBPAR is in the DosDrivers Drawer.

After a reboot, does any one have any tips on why MultiView "Could not find printer" ?

Thanks much in advance,

-E

Try it with Turbo Print in "Printer" settings not "Printers". There are some HP Deskjet drivers which should probably work.

Trekman,

Things seem to be working well now. Thanks for the tip.

I did accidentally have the "Printer" prefs driver .HPInkJet set as default when this all started working. I've since defaulted to the HP950C driver from the list there and nothing seems to have broken. The 950Cnew driver had an error "could not find printer" so I reverted without further investigation.

I used usbparallel.device in the "Printer" prefs as the Device. MultiView printed right away. VPDF needed me to deselect "PostScript" in the driver area. Although it appears that nothing is selected to print to, that printed to the default printer perfectly.

Thanks,

-E

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Good luck, there's no viable printing option.

Unless you can find a printer from the 2000s. That's unfortunate for a 25-year-old operating system.

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Isn't a 25-year old OS pretty much much spot on if it supports printers from the 2000s, just saying ...

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It sure is! Getting these old Mac's and periph's to do something relavant (again) is quite a good feeling isn't it?